Our Business
Centered on gas and energy, Iwatani Corporation engages in four business segments: Integrated Energy, Industrial Gases & Machinery, Materials.
Iwatani Corporation is an integrated energy provider with the top share in the LPG market in Japan.
We engage in a wide range of businesses through four business segments: the core businesses of the Integrated Energy Business, centered on LPG; the Industrial Gases & Machinery Business, which handles a wide range of gas and machinery equipment for industrial applications; and the Materials Business and Agri-Bio & Foods Business, which are based on the foregoing.
Iwatani’s Fields
Integrated Energy
The Energy business delivers consumer LPG under the MaruiGas brand to households across Japan. It also offers industrial LPG and LNG for factory use. In addition, it provides customers with portable gas cooking stoves, cassette gas canisters, natural mineral water from Mt. Fuji, and other products essential for daily life, as well as safety services for gas equipment and the city gas services that constitute part of the essential infrastructure of daily life.
Industrial Gases & Machinery
The Industrial Gases & Machinery segment consists of the Industrial Gases business, whose products include air separation gases (oxygen, nitrogen, and argon), hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, semiconductor material gases, and medical gases, and the business of Machinery, which includes production and supply equipment for a wide range of gases, factory automation systems, welding equipment, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and environmental equipment. Our efforts advance the industry by proposing solutions to meet customer needs, drawing on the technological capabilities accumulated over many years and our wide-ranging lineup of gas and machinery products.
Materials
The Materials segment consists of four sections: Functional Plastics, which handles resin raw materials and resin products; Resources & Advanced Materials, which handles mineral sands and other materials; Metals, which handles stainless steel and non-ferrous metals; and Electronic Materials. These segments supply the raw and other materials essential for manufacturing.
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Iwatani R&D Center
The Iwatani R&D Center was founded by Iwatani, which has developed diverse businesses centered on gas and energy to create elemental technologies for tomorrow in partnership with its customers.
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Iwatani Advanced Hydrogen Technology Center
In October 2021, to realize our goal of building a hydrogen energy-based society, we founded the Iwatani Advanced Hydrogen Technology Center. The center will accelerate the development of new and proprietary technologies related to decarbonization, including the manufacture of green hydrogen and green LPG, as well as the hydrogen-related technologies we have developed to date.